The average job-seeker takes 12 weeks to find work. TIME profiles one laid-off software architect who used social networks including Facebook and Twitter to land a job in just 11 days. Will the recovery favor the internet-savvy in other fields as well? (Or: maybe this guy was just a super employee who, if he hadn’t been wasting his time tweeting, would have found a job in 10 days?) [%comments]
The Digital Divide?
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My wife has been doing most of this for four months. Lots of interviews, no offers. Maybe it helps if you are a software developer. people actually need those.
I heard from a substitute teacher in the Minneapolis school district that substitute assignments are sent out as tweets and only as tweets. I don’t know if this is common.
How can you determine that ‘The average job-seeker takes 12 weeks to find work’?
There are so many variables at play: motivation of the job seeker, decision making process of the employer, hiring cyles that vary from job to job and from industry to industry, and from organization to organization. We can find some data thru the traditional methods, but it isn’t enough. We’ll be making an educated guess. And there’s networking, I’m told, but I haven’t done any research. Could you share your thoughts on this? How could I use efficiently social-networking sites?